What is "sangfroid"

Usage examples of "sangfroid".

At his execution by the garrote he refused religious rites and maintained an unbroken sangfroid.

We limited our losses at poker to so much an evening, and what we won from the merchant class we invariably lost among the volunteer guards and cowmen, taking our luck with a sangfroid which proved us dead-game sports, and made us hosts of friends.

The boatswain's sangfroid and disingenuity were marvelous to behold, but tore Will's heart.

He was the kindof Englishman one used to see in old war movies, Trevor Howard or Michael Redgrave, who hid any emotion behind a clipped voice, a stiff upper lip and sangfroid.